Mary Timony Quotes
I will go through these style phases. I think it's confusing in some ways. People like bands to be really consistent.
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I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.
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If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
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It's something that I do every year - every Ramadan to be exact - taking an 18-hour flight back home to Malaysia from Los Angeles. I'm born and raised in Malaysia, and Ramadan and Eid has always been my favorite time of the year.
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I have always looked up to Adele and Christina Aguilera as singers ever since I was very young, and now my favorite male singer is Hozier.
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I have a chart for success at school because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. It opened my mind to the world. I learned to read.
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Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
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There is plenty of building material and more than enough manpower to make a decent home for every Cuban. But if we continue to wait for the golden calf, a thousand years will have gone by, and the problem will remain the same.
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.
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I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.
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It's fun having songs about parties and gigolos, but I really wanted to use my music as a form of art. Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think, and I wanted to do that with this song
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At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.
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The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose.
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Trying to enforce our out-of-touch laws is as foolish and impossible as trying to enforce a law requiring that water flow uphill.
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I will go through these style phases. I think it's confusing in some ways. People like bands to be really consistent.
